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Posted on 11/07/2005 7:26:31 PM PST by FairOpinion
By next June, electronic health record systems will be available that are certified as capable of exchanging data with other providers when standards are decided. They will also meet criteria for basic clinical doctors’ offices functions, said Mark Leavitt, director of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology of Chicago, the nonprofit organization in charge of establishing the certification process.
The initial cases for health IT applications are for chronic care management, disease or bioterror surveillance and a personal health record, said John Halamka, chairman of the Health IT Standards Panel and Harvard Medical School CIO. His panel also will review the standards that contractors propose for national health IT network prototypes.
“By [next] summer, we’ll have the implementation guide on the three use cases and recommend standards for the NHIN,” he said.
CCHIT will test for functionality, standards and security. For example, an electronic health records system should be able to alert the physician that a new medication for a patient has a negative interaction with other drugs prescribed for the patient.
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It all sounds good, but once there are electronic records, it's too easy to share it, hack into it, and so on, there goes whatever little privacy we thought we had.
This is so disturbing. I wonder where the "right to privacy" leftists come down on this?
OK....
From now own, I pay cash at the local MedAid clinic, under an assumed name.
Get ready for you private medical records and doctor visits to became accessible to all the people you wish they were kept from. Just bribe the right person. Even done honestly your medical records will be looked at by way too many "interested parties" Such as insurers, lenders and mortgage companies.
I last saw a doc three years ago. I misspelled my name and gave a phony SS#.
Exactly right...
From this day forward, to doctors, hospitals, ect., I am J. Chirac at 1122 Surrender Avenue. 123-45-6789
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They already are.
Seeing as insurance companies etc. already have access to your medical records, the real question is will this benefit you the consumer when visiting a hospital or a doctor other than your primary physician in the form of complete medical history available to them? I don't know.AWB
I'm gonna get a Matricula Consular card and pose as an illegal alien who pays cash.
I found out when applying for some health insurance that the doctor often "codes" your visits so he can get paid and then that goes to a Big Brother database that is replete with all the errors. I had physical therapy for a very slight whiplash after an accident...5 visits to PT and 2 doctor visits within a 3 month period. The insurance company had this listed as "Chronic back/spine problems"!
It also listed "cardiac problems" because of one Stress Test for chest pains which were just "stress" with NO cardiac problems ever. I asked the ins reviewer what "time length" they would consider for one such occurrence. He said," Oh, maybe if you had that problem when you were 6 or 7 years old and then never had it again." I am not kidding!
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